Windows Phone 7 "spiffs"
Word has it the Kinect is going to be expanded as a Windows interface. If Microsoft are smart, they will expand the Xbox and Kinect brands into the rest of their business. They should explode Xbox Live into a service across Windows PCs, Xbox, and their phones.
Noteworthy that Xbox Live has already come to Windows as Games for Windows Live, which is pretty much feature complete in terms of messaging, matchmaking, achievement tracking, seeing when people are online, etc. It’s failed to set the world on fire, however, and most people (and most publishers) seem to prefer Steam’s social features to GfWL. Support for GfWL seems to be dwindling in new titles.
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